September 10, 2006

Administrivia

Language: Python 2.5. Final release should be very soon (i.e. next few days).
I like the language and library improvements over Python 2.4, details here.

Only drawback is availability: Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) and Debian 3.1 (Etch) will
probably be the first distributions to ship with support for 2.5.

Initial target platform: Vim 7.0. It’s what my desktop runs and reportedly has
better features for writing things to assist the programmer. Emacs support
would be using Pymacs.

I will need to compile both Python 2.5 and Vim 7.0 for use in DCS as RHEL4 ships
with Python 2.3 (although Python 2.4 is locally available) and Vim 6.x.
Bzr will have to be installed to my account’s python install as well.

I shall be using the py.test tool/library for project wide testing (and probably some
other features from that library).